Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-11-12

lied Won hear not one word. One great stock
firm goes down, and whole columns of news
Dapers discuss their fraud, Or their dis
aster and we are presented with Their
features and their biography But where
one such famous firm sinks five hundred I'M
known men sink with them. The great
steamer goes down and all the little boats.
are swallowed in the same engufment Gam
bling is gambling, whether in stocks, Or
breaslstuffs, or dice or race-track betting.
Exhilaration at the start, and raving brain
and shattered nervous system aud sac
rificed property and a destroyed soul at the
last. Young man, buy no lottery tickets,
purchase no prize packages, bet on no base
ball games or yacht racing, have no faith in.
luck, answer no mysterious circulars pro-
posing great income for small investment;
shoe away the buzzards that hover around
our hotels trying to eaitrap strangers. Go
out AMI make an honest living. Have God
on your side and be a candidate for heaven.
Remember all the paths of sin are banked
with flowers at the start, and there arc
plenty of helpful hands to fetch the gay
charger to your door and hold the strrup
while you mount. But further on the horse
plunges to the bib in slough inextricabe.
The best honey is not like thai which iona
than took on the end of the rod aud brought
to his lip, but that which God puts on the
banqueting table of Mercy, at which we arc
ali invited to sit l was reading of boy
ing dangerous place with his father and the
guides The boy stopped on the edge of tho
cliff and said: There is a flower mean to-
get" ''Come away from here" said the.
father, "you will fall off" ''No," said he, 81
must get that beautiful flower and the
guides rushed toward him to pull him back.
when they heard him say: II almost
have it,n as he fell 1900 feet. Birds Of
prey were seen a few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradually 10
the place where tho corpse lay. Why seek
flowers on the edge of preciPice when you
NAV walk knee deep amid the full blooms of
the very Paradise OF God! When, man may
sit at kings banquet, why will he 60. down
the steps and contend for the gristle and
bones of q hounds kennell
"Sweeter than honey and the honeyconb,"
says David, "is the truth of God" With
honey out of the rock would have satisfied
thee,n says God to the recreant. Here IS
honey gathered frors the blossoms of trees of
life, and with a rod made out of the wood of
the cross Idip it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesiod tells of an am.
srosia and nectar the drinking o.
! and one sip of this honey from the Eternal
Rock will give you immortal life with Col,
Come off of the malarial levels of sinful
life Come and live on the uplands OF grace
where the vineyards sun themselves. On,
taste and see that the Lord is gracious. Be
happy now anu httppJ iOtcfct- ~ NHvo
| who take different course the honey VIII
turn 10 gall For many things | have ad-
mired Percy Shelley, the great English poet,
but deplore the fact that it was great
sweetness to him to dishonor Col The poem
.sQueen Nab" has in it the maligning OF tue
deity. The infidel poet was impions enough
| to ask for Rowland Hills Surrey chapel that
he might denounce the Christian religion
He was in great CLEO against God and the
truth. But he visited Italy, and one day on
the Mediterranean with two friends in toat
which was twenty-four feet long, he was
| coming toward shore when an hours s1ual
struck the water. gentleman standing on
| shore through glass saw many boats tossed
| in this squat, but all outrode the terror ex.
| cept one, that in which Shelley, tho intidel
| poet, and his two friends were sailing That
never came ashore, but the bodies of two Of
| the occupants were WASHED upon the beach,
| one of them the poet. A funeral pyre was
built on the sea shore by some classic friends
| and the two bodies wero consumed. Poor
| Shel!eyi He would have no God while he
lived and he probably had no God when he
died. "The Lord knoweth the way OF the
righteous, but the way Of the ungodly shall
PERISH Beware of tho forbidden honeyi